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Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Compton, Donald L.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2012
Response-to-intervention (RTI) models incorporate a screening process to identify students who appear to be at risk for learning disabilities (LDs). The purpose of this position article is to incorporate what is known about screening into a flexible, yet comprehensive screening system to help school psychologists and other school administrators in…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Screening Tests, Response to Intervention, Reading Difficulties
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Livanis, Andrew; Mouzakitis, Angela – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
Treatment validity is a frequently neglected topic of screening instruments used to identify autism spectrum disorders. Treatment validity, however, should represent an important aspect of these instruments to link the resulting data to the selection of interventions as well as make decisions about treatment length and intensity. Research…
Descriptors: Autism, Test Validity, Disability Identification, Screening Tests
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Cook, Clayton R.; Volpe, Robert J.; Livanis, Andrew – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
The majority of the literature on universal screening in education is devoted to academic screeners. However, research clearly indicates that other aspects of student functioning are closely associated with outcomes inside and outside of school. As a result, there are gaps in the current literature that call for additional research extending…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, At Risk Students, Student Evaluation, Measurement
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Vaughn, Sharon; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
We respond to the comments of Batsche, Kavale, and Kovaleski (this issue), on Response To Intervention (RTI) and learning disabilities. Historically, discrepancy between IQ and achievement has been used by many as a criterion for identification of learning disabilities. Recently, RTI is considered as a practice for identifying consistent and…
Descriptors: Responses, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification
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Batsche, George M.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Kovaleski, Joseph F. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
The provision for allowing local education agencies to use an assessment of a student's response to intervention (RTI) in lieu of a consideration of an ability--achievement discrepancy has been a controversial aspect of the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. To address issues that have arisen about RTI, a series of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, School Districts, Student Evaluation
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Hosp, Michelle K.; Hamlett, Carol L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
This article describes recent efforts to develop a reading diagnostic analysis to be used in conjunction with curriculum-based measurement for informing teachers how to refocus their instruction to address individual needs. A detailed example with data charts and student reports shows application in one second grade class. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities
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Mitchell, Jami-Jon – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2001
This article profiles the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP), an assessment designed to detect phonological processing deficits in students ages 5 through 24. The theoretical framework of the CTOPP, age-based versions of the CTOPP, subtests, testing procedures, test scores and interpretation, and reliability and validity are…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence